Download or read book Introduction to Subfactors written by Vaughan F. R. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subfactors have been a subject of considerable research activity for about 15 years and are known to have significant relations with other fields such as low dimensional topology and algebraic quantum field theory. These notes give an introduction to the subject suitable for a student who has only a little familiarity with the theory of Hilbert space. A new pictorial approach to subfactors is presented in a late ch apter.